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Our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are uncovering the structure of language using cutting-edge methods such as ultrasound imaging and eye-tracking. We are showing that texts, sentences, words, consonants, and vowels observe principles that are not apparent to the naked ear. These principles create the potential for more efficient legal systems, more successful educational environments, new therapies for people who struggle with speaking and listening, and next-generation technologies in web search and speech recognition. Learn more about what UWM linguists are doing!
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Department News
- Important Linguistics Update for Fall 2026 RegistrationGreetings Linguistics undergraduates! Starting in Fall 2026, there are some changes to the requirements for the major. These are designed to make things easier for students …
- Starr publishes chapter in “New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition”Faculty member Glenn Starr published a chapter in New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second …
- Fleisher talks at UChicagoFaculty member Nick Fleisher was on the road last week to give a colloquium presentation on his current research at the University of Chicago …
- UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana)UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 39 Indiana), which will take place at Indiana University …




